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cve[email protected]CVE-2015-5879
HistorySep 18, 2015 - 12:00 p.m.

CVE-2015-5879

2015-09-1812:00:18
CWE-20
web.nvd.nist.gov
37
cve-2015-5879
xnu
kernel
apple
ios
tcp
denial of service
vulnerability

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

5.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.054 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.2%

XNU in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 does not properly validate the headers of TCP packets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the sequence-number protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (TCP connection disruption) via a crafted header.

Affected configurations

NVD
Node
appleiphone_osRange8.4.1
Node
applemac_os_xRange10.10.5
CPENameOperatorVersion
apple:iphone_osapple iphone osle8.4.1

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

5.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.054 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.2%